My Freaking Awesome Tardis'

So I've been working on making mini Tardis' (plural) to make a ring/earring set. My first one came out pretty good and I was super stoked. THEN. I made two smaller ones for earrings. The colors, the shading, per.fec.tion. I loved my first one tremendously, but when these two were done I was over the moon. They will be amazing as finished jewelry if it doesn't kill me first.

Yesterday in my excitement to pull my first try out of the oven I nearly knocked myself out on the open cupboard corner, right in the forehead. Lots of arnica later I have no bruise, but still hurts a ton. Then now still jumping around excited for these two little guys I was shaking the can of Workable Fixitif and slam my elbow into the edge of my chair. Dead armed instantly. I made it out though, and have some awesome pieces to show for it. We all suffer for our art, right?

My first try: 

The new baby Tardis':

The lighting isn't great, but I was so excited I didn't want to take the time to pull out the lightbox. Now what did I make that for? :)

New Jewelry

So the last few days I've been on a creating spree! Lots of rings, and a few pairs of earrings. Here is a preview of some of what I've done. Tell me what you think.

I'm going to have a contest for the month of September. Details coming soon. :)

Natalie Portman Drawing

So today I got in a sketching kind of mood. I took a few hours of and on to draw a portrait of Natalie Portman. I used this photo as reference:

Then in my photo software changed it to black and white so I could see the shadows better. This was my result:

It's not perfect, but for my first regular sized shot at a portrait I'm pretty proud of it.

Eye Practice

So I've been sketching a bit lately. I've tried drawing realistic looking faces before, but they never really came out right. Then I started to watch some tutorials and read up a bit on how to bring a sketch to life. I started with eyes. I figured that if I could make the eyes look right, bring the life into them, then it's downhill from there. So here's what I have so far, with my first tries at the top and going down are my continued efforts:

After that I started to dabble in working on noses and mouths and came up with this guy on my second try:

I was pretty happy with my results. Especially on my second try. I will continue practicing and when I feel ready, will work on parlaying these into water color. Any tips and tricks on how to do lips a little more realistic? I feel like I'm missing it. Maybe too wide a top lip, and more shading or something? Hmmm....

Light Box: Complete

So I finished the light box. Not a whole lot to look at, but I think it'll work just fine. I tried using some little lamps I had to take some pics of my handmade jewelry, but I wasn't really satisfied with the results. So I'm going to try using my boyfriend's Happy Light and see how that goes. Photos to follow soon.

I'm thinking of doing a free giveaway soon. Maybe some earrings, a ring, maybe both. If you are interested, follow me to keep up to date on the haps around here. Any suggestions on what you would like to see here? Would a contest or random draw be better? Please comment and let me know. :) Thanks

DIY Light Box

So hopefully soon I am going to try to make my own light box to take photos of the jewelry I've created. Anyone have a good tutorial they like for doing this on the cheap?

Giraffe

A sketch I did of a giraffe in 2008. I think the original photo was in a National Geographic.

Hello World!!

So as my first post ever I just want to say hello. My name is Paix and I am a 27 year old living in Colorado that works in retail.

I am mainly creating this blog to track my progress of some different projects I'm into right now. (Constructive criticism is welcome.) I've been known to create jewelry, sketch, paint, sew, and who knows what else. I might throw up some music or shows or whatever, time will tell. I'd love to travel (anywhere outside the U.S.-never been) and am saving up. I love a huge number of things that the list for now at least is too long to list them all.



 Thanks so much for taking the time to check out my little corner of the internet, I can't wait to get to know you all. :)